Povidone-iodine cleansing plus formalin disinfection of the needle is a "simple, low-cost, and effective" nonantibiotic strategy to decrease infectious complications following transrectal ultrasound ...

Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy. LATP ...

Patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the randomized FORMULA-509 trial of salvage radiotherapy and 6 months of GnRH agonist with either bicalutamide or abiraterone acetate plus ...

Correlation between PSA kinetics and detection rate of PSMA-PET in the setting of biochemical recurrent prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

Non-infiltrative anesthetics are safe and effective in treating pain from transrectal prostate biopsy, according to research from the Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation at the University ...

In 2018, a 68-year-old Norwegian stonemason named Roar Gulbrandsen died after undergoing a routine transrectal biopsy. When the cause of death was determined to have been a massive, preventable ...

Prostate biopsy in patients with suspected prostate cancer is usually carried out by a transrectal needle biopsy. Amongst other uses, transperineal template biopsy may be used for patients with ...

University Hospital in Newark — which is also the principal teaching hospital for Rutgers New Jersey Medical School — added the transperineal prostate biopsy procedure to its cancer-detection arsenal.